10-07-13, 10:41 PM
In work this morning (Dublin) I saw a fella commuting on a Ducati Monster, lovely bike but it wasn't the bike that drew my attention. The guy was wearing a suit, shirt tie jacket the works, shoes a helmet and .... a satchel. A brown leather man bag. Now he did have a nice Shoei helmet on but unless his suit was made of kevlar any accident and he is in trouble.
A year or two ago here in Dublin some of the lads in work dealt with an accident where an 80+ year old man driving a toyota hiace sized van knocked down a biker who got caught up in part of the van and dragged by it for 4-500 metres, the old fogey hadn't a clue he even hit a bike never mind was dragging the driver along the tarmac at 40km/h+.
My point is regardless of how you drive, you have every chance of being taken out of it by someone else and speed may not be a factor at all (above).
I've only been riding since May 2012 and in all that time have been an ATGATT person all the way. Until this week, the weather has been so hot I've dropped the bottoms I have for jeans which are cooler but once it cools down again the gear will be going back on.
A year or two ago here in Dublin some of the lads in work dealt with an accident where an 80+ year old man driving a toyota hiace sized van knocked down a biker who got caught up in part of the van and dragged by it for 4-500 metres, the old fogey hadn't a clue he even hit a bike never mind was dragging the driver along the tarmac at 40km/h+.
My point is regardless of how you drive, you have every chance of being taken out of it by someone else and speed may not be a factor at all (above).
I've only been riding since May 2012 and in all that time have been an ATGATT person all the way. Until this week, the weather has been so hot I've dropped the bottoms I have for jeans which are cooler but once it cools down again the gear will be going back on.